Vision of a Muslim state

Ever since the creation of Pakistan we have been in mad pursuit of a good number of state ideologies, nevertheless we miserably failed to select any of them. Unfortunately, the people at the helms of power failed to peep deep into the ideology presented by the philosopher father of Pakistan. A deeper study of the state ideology offered by him needs to be properly understood and implemented in true letter and spirit.
Dr Allama Muhammed Iqbal in his letters to Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on May 28, 1937 wrote that the problem of bread is becoming more acute; the Muslim have begun to feel that they have been going down and down during the last two hundred years; ordinarily, they believe that their poverty is due to Hindu money lending or capitalism. The atheistic socialism of Jawaharlal Nehru is not likely to receive much response from the Muslims. The question, therefore, is how is it possible to solve the problem of the misery and poverty of the Muslims. Happily, there is a solution in the enforcement of the law of Islam and its further development in the light of modern ideas.
After a long, and careful study of the Islamic Laws, I have come to the conclusion that if this system of law is properly understood and applied, at least the right to subsistence is secured to everybody. But the enforcement and development of the Shariat is impossible in this country without a free Muslim state or states.
lqbal's vision of a Muslim state was organically associated with the implementation of the Islamic law and sharia subjected to modem interpretations and ijtihad. The sages' vision regarding nature and formation of the Islamic State was transparent, practical and was in strict conformity with its orthodox spirit. In 1911, he writes in Hindustan Review vols xxii and xxiii: "I want to draw your attention to the following two points:
?    That the Muslim commonwealth is based on the absolute equality of all Muslims in the eye of law; there is no privileged class no priesthood, no caste system. The political ideal of Islam consists in the creation of a people born of a free fusion of all races and nationalities. Nationality with Islam is not the highest limit of political development for the general principles of the law of Islam rest on human nature not on regularities of particular people. The inner cohesion of such a nation would consist not in ethnic of geographic unity, not in the unity of language or social tradition but in the unity of religious and political ideal or in the psychological fact of like-mindedness.
?    That according to the law of Islam, there is no distinction between the church and the state. The state with us is not a combination of religious and secular authority, but it is a unity in which no such distinction exists. The caliph is not necessarily the high priest of Islam; he is not representative of God on earth. He is fallible like other man and is subject, like every Muslim, to the impersonal authority of the same law."